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Can anyone help me with this bogey bird.
Field guides indicate you can see them anywhere in Kruger, but it seems they are more common in the south. Has anyone come across an area where they are quite reliable. I have searched everywhere with no luck. Maybe there is a certain time of the year they are more common. They are not scarce so i'm not too sure why I miss them every time.

We usually just see them in the south specially in the Pretoriuskop area and Malelane tar road up to Skukuza.
Saw a lot of them 2 months ago (end August) around Pretoriuskop.
Saw this one during the bad fires on the H1-1

I find these birds extremely shy and are easily overlooked on the sides of the road. It is only when you actively scan the road edge that you realise that you have probably been driving past quite a number of them. I have also seen them quite regularly on the dirt road to Orpen near the Lugmag Dam and that area.

DescriptionChestnut striped breast and sides, black and white barring on the underside throat is white with black edging necklace. Legs and feet are yellow and a distinct pale stripe over the eye and ear coverts.

Good work folks - it's easy to confuse these birds with Orange River, Greywing and Redwing if one is nonchalant.

Shelley's is a seldom seen bird in Kruger - definitely heard more regularly. However at Marakele a place where I have found them on several occasions is on the tar road up to the towers in the wooded area just before the final steep ascent that hugs the cliff face.

I tend to find them more often on the descent and that could be due to the element of surprise. Having said that, when I took these pics they were very confiding.

Also saw a Shelley's Francolin in April on the S29, west of the H10. A new bird for me too, and that's three reports from the same area S29/S128, so they must like those grasslands. No pic, too busy checking the guide to make sure it really was the right bird.

I saw a group of three Shelley's francolin on 14 October 2008 crossing the H7 in slow motion — it took over 5 minutes for the three to cross the road, and I was trying to block traffic to make sure the birds got safely across No one else seemed to realise that this was an unusual sighting Only one reasonable photo tho, as I had messed up my camera settings

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